Hoplacephala transfuga (Villeneuve, 1933) Dawah & Abdullah & Pape, 2024

Dawah, Hassan A., Abdullah, Mohammed A. & Pape, Thomas, 2024, Sarcophagidae (Insecta: Diptera) of Saudi Arabia: new records, an updated checklist and a new species, Zootaxa 5418 (1), pp. 1-33 : 9

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5418.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10718273

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scientific name

Hoplacephala transfuga
status

 

Hoplacephala transfuga

( Figs 9–11 View FIGURES 9–11 )

Alusomyia transfuga Villeneuve, 1933: 257 View in CoL . Type locality: Egypt.

Africasia oestroidea Rohdendorf, 1934: 14 View in CoL . Type locality: Egypt, 3rd Tower Suez Road .

Specimens examined. SAUDI ARABIA: 1♀, Asir, Maraba, Al-Hudaithy Fruit Farm , 14.iii.2013, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah ( NMWC) .

Distribution. Egypt, Niger, Saudi Arabia *.

Remarks. First record from Saudi Arabia. The genus Alusomyia Villeneuve, 1933 is distinctive as currently defined by largely yellow coloration, strongly reduced mouthparts, an irregular row of bristly setae close to the anteroventral eye-margin, and wing cell R 4+5 closed or with very short petiole ( Rohdendorf 1975; Pape 1996). Each of the four nominal species included were based exclusively on a single male, the holotype, and Pape (1996) considered these to constitute two valid species. No further males have been reported in the literature, and the present report is the first record of a female. Alusomyia Villeneuve, 1933 is here synonymized with Hoplacephala Macquart, 1834 , syn. nov., argued from the presence of four proclinate orbital bristles, the row of strong parafacial setae close to the anteroventral eye-margin, the large gena, and the somewhat robust habitus compared to most other miltogrammines. The generic synonymy evokes the new combinations Hoplacephala transfuga ( Villeneuve, 1933) , comb. nov. and Hoplacephala turana ( Rohdendorf, 1975) comb. nov.

NMWC

National Museum of Wales

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Sarcophagidae

Genus

Hoplacephala

Loc

Hoplacephala transfuga

Dawah, Hassan A., Abdullah, Mohammed A. & Pape, Thomas 2024
2024
Loc

Africasia oestroidea

Rohdendorf, B. B. 1934: 14
1934
Loc

Alusomyia transfuga

Villeneuve, J. 1933: 257
1933
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